"Soar over Purgatory and reap all the foes."
From solo developer Maddison Baek, Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer, with gameplay inspired by spectacle fighters, and a world designed to look and feel like a living prog-rock album cover. Test your skill with it's vast, stylistic, expressive combat options!
Act 1 out of all three acts is freely available as a demo.
The save file is transferable to the main game.
Perfect Positioning: Juggle and pogo enemies, while utilizing environmental hazards for efficient crowd control and maximum lethality.
Risky Maneuvers: This game encourages an aggressive approach. Keep moving, weaving in ranged skills and healing bombs to mitigate damage taken.
Difficulty Options: Choose from 5 escalating difficulties transforming stage layouts and enemy compositions to push yourself to the limit.
Personalized Playstyle: Experiment with the flexible Necklace system to further cater to differing combat preferences.
Exploration: Features large, intricate, surrealist arenas with fluid movement tools for traversing challenging terrain.
Soundtrack: A highly varied OST blending prog-rock/metal with jazz, disco, and orchestral influences to compliment the intense action and surrealist environments.
You play as Gretel, a reaper in this twisted purgatory, exiled for 200 years. After being freed from her sarcophagus by a wandering soul named Archibald - Gretel seeks purpose in her afterlife - guiding Archibald back to the sanctuary she was long ago exiled from. This journey will be along a perilous path, fraught with all manner of grotesque demons starving for souls.
